Gerd Koenen Rote Jahrzehnt

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While the Cultural Revolution had already long since become gruesome reality in China in the late 1960’s, Maoism was just coming into fashion among artists and intellectuals in many Western countries. Yet it was more than simply an indispensible zeitgeist accessory for some, for many activists it became.

Künstlerhaus Mousonturm – Gerd Koenen (DE). – While the Cultural Revolution had already long since become gruesome reality in China in the late 1960’s, Maoism was just coming into fashion among artists and intellectuals in many Western countries. Yet it was more than simply an indispensible zeitgeist accessory for some, for many activists it became.

Gerd Koenen is a German historian and former communist politician. Koenen grew up in Bochum and Gelsenkirchen and studied Romance languages, history and politics in Tübingen. There, he joined the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (Socialist German Student Association) in the wake of the shooting of Benno Ohnesorg by the police.